INSECURITY: Don’t make us resort to ‘self-help’, Ohanaeze warns

Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has accused herdsmen of the murder of one Mrs Pat Ngwu in Enugu State.

Mrs Ngwu’s body was found on Thursday after she went missing on Wednesday from her farm in Nchatancha community.

Publicity Secretary of Ohaneze, Uche Achi-Okpaga, in a statement on Thursday in Ebonyi, alleged that herdsmen were responsible for the killing and warned that the people of the region will be forced to resort to self-help if nothing is done stop the killings.

“The spate of rape, kidnapping and killings in Igbo land by the dare devil fulani herdsmen has reached an alarming crescendo. The recent killing of an innocent woman in Nchatancha, Enugu, buoys the staccato out cries of national insecurity,” he said.

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“With the situation virtually out of hand of the security agencies, the people may be compelled to resort to self help for survival unless a drastic effort is exerted, by the security forces, to quench the impending national holocaust,” he said.

Achi-Okpaga further called for thorough investigation and prosecution of the killers to assuage the people.

“We therefore call on the Police, to as a matter of urgency, investigate this condemnable killing of this innocent woman and bring the culprits to face the wrath of the law in order to restore the confidence of the people”

“The people’s patience have been stretched to their elastic limits and only a thorough investigation, exposure of the criminals and totally check the seemingly intractably crimes will assuage the frayed and bruised nerves of the people”.

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